Duke University Courses

A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior

554 reviews

Behavioral economics couples scientific research on the psychology of decision making with economic theory to better understand what motivates financial decisions. In A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior, you will learn about some of the many ways i…

• Coursera
• 7-11 hours a week
• 11th Mar, 2014
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Medical Neuroscience

50 reviews

In this course, you will discover the organization of the neural systems in the brain and spinal cord that mediate sensation, motivate bodily action, and integrate sensorimotor signals with memory, emotion and related faculties of cognition.

• Coursera
• 71 hours worth of material, 13 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Introduction to Genetics and Evolution

31 reviews

This course provides the basic biology you need to understand all of these issues better, tries to clarify some misconceptions, and tries to prepare students for future, more advanced coursework in Biology (and especially evolutionary genetics).

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 11 weeks long
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Mastering Data Analysis in Excel

26 reviews

Important: The focus of this course is on math - specifically, data-analysis concepts and methods - not on Excel for its own sake. We use Excel to do our calculations, and all math formulas are given as Excel Spreadsheets, but we do not attempt to cover…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

English Composition I

19 reviews

You will gain a foundation for college-level writing valuable for nearly any field.

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 10 weeks long
• 23rd Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software

15 reviews

Learn to code in Java and improve your programming and problem-solving skills. You will learn to design algorithms as well as develop and debug programs. Using custom open-source classes, you will write programs that access and transform images, websites…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introductory Human Physiology

29 reviews

In this course, students learn to recognize and to apply the basic concepts that govern integrated body function (as an intact organism) in the body's nine organ systems.

• Coursera
• 33 hours worth of material, 10 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

• Best of All Time

Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS

12 reviews

Learn foundational programming concepts (e.g., functions, for loops, conditional statements) and how to solve problems like a programmer. In addition, learn basic web development as you build web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript. By the end of the cours…

• Coursera
• 33 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Bayesian Statistics

12 reviews

This course describes Bayesian statistics, in which one's inferences about parameters or hypotheses are updated as evidence accumulates. You will learn to use Bayes’ rule to transform prior probabilities into posterior probabilities, and be introduced to…

• Coursera
• 35 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Business Metrics for Data-Driven Companies

10 reviews

In this course, you will learn best practices for how to use data analytics to make any company more competitive and more profitable. You will be able to recognize the most critical business metrics and distinguish them from mere data. You’ll get a cle…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Oil & Gas Industry Operations and Markets

9 reviews

The oil and gas industry has an enormous impact on all aspects of daily life. Individuals, corporations, and national governments make financial and policy decisions based on the cost, use, and availability of these two natural resources. This two-week c…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 2 weeks long
• 25th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau

9 reviews

One of the skills that characterizes great business data analysts is the ability to communicate practical implications of quantitative analyses to any kind of audience member. Even the most sophisticated statistical analyses are not useful to a business…

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Java Programming: Arrays, Lists, and Structured Data

6 reviews

Build on the software engineering skills you learned in “Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software” by learning new data structures. Use these data structures to build more complex programs that use Java’s object-oriented features. At the end of t…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Advertising and Society

6 reviews

This course examines the relation of advertising to society, culture, history, and the economy. Using contemporary theories about visual communications, we learn to analyze the complex levels of meaning in both print advertisements and television commer…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 16th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Dog Emotion and Cognition

19 reviews

Dog Emotion and Cognition will introduce you to the exciting new study of dog psychology, what the latest discoveries tell us about how dogs think and feel about us, and how we can use this new knowledge to further strengthen our relationship with our be…

• Coursera
• 22 hours worth of material, 8 weeks long
• 9th Jan, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)